Jörg Hartmann as Commissioner Faber: programmed for a crash
Photo: WDR / Thomas KostIn the summer weeks, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the series, the ARD shows the winners of a "crime scene" voting from cases of the past 20 years. This week "collapse" won. The original version of this quick check appeared when it first aired in 2015.
The scenario:
Drug war and refugee crime in the north of Dortmund. A girl digs up coke capsules in a sandpit, puts them in her mouth and dies. A vigilante group is hunting down the black dealers, the local Turkish gang bosses are pursuing alternative justice. Right in the middle of the turmoil: Peter Faber (Jörg Hartmann) and Martina Bönisch.
The bloodiest moment:
The sight of the child's body cut open on the autopsy table - bluish skin, small body, huge seam - never lets you go.
The socio-political mandate:
To explain why African refugees often deal in drugs - and why they should still be granted asylum.
A crazy dialogue:
Faber is obsessed with digging for drugs in the sandpit with his hands. One policeman asks the other: "What is he doing?" Answer: "He's fabulous again." A nice verb for Peter Faber's idiosyncratic investigative style.
An even crazier dialogue:
Bönisch interrogates the mother of the dead child: "What are you doing here with your daughter?" Answer: "This is a playground!" When drugs pervert a city's topography.
The plausibility factor:
Quite high. In the second episode of Dortmund's "Tatort" 2012, Commissioner Faber drank and fought his way through the focal point of Dortmund's northern part of the city, and in "Kollaps" the threads and subplots were taken up again. Unfortunately, the larger social conflict sometimes gets out of focus, but the characters act credibly.
The review:
6 out of 10 points. Despite the problematic places, an eye-catcher: Faber and Co. are once again staging the big crash theater.
The analysis?
Then please read on here!
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